Fiserv

Staff Applied AI Engineer

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24 hours ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end architecture, design, implementation, testing, and deployment across the applied AI portfolio while contributing to AI strategy and roadmap.
  • Build safe tool layers with permissions, rollback, auditability, and advanced RAG layers grounded in real-time merchant data.
  • Define behavioral contracts, develop evaluation harnesses, and engineer decision layers for trustworthy merchant recommendations.
  • Develop multimodal ingestion pipelines for photos, PDFs, and spreadsheets with merchant review workflows where needed.
  • Operate production systems through tracing, cost management, live quality monitoring, and rotational on-call support.
  • Extend the shared multi-agent framework, contribute upstream, use agentic coding tools, mentor engineers, and establish reusable AI patterns and guardrails.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years leading complex production systems through deployment.
  • Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, Kubernetes, REST APIs, and microservices.
  • Fluency in Python and a JVM language such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala, plus experience with SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and vector databases.
  • Production ownership of action-oriented LLM systems that write to systems of record and serve real users.
  • Hands-on experience with evaluation-driven development, behavioral contracts, eval-gated releases, tracing, rate limits, latency and cost budgets, and live monitoring.
  • Strong judgment regarding blast radius, prompt injection, security, and privacy when AI systems write to persistent databases.
  • Demonstrated agentic coding workflow fluency, product judgment, analytical problem-solving, and cross-team influence.
  • Preferred qualifications include production experience with Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude, GPT, or Llama; multi-agent orchestration and MCP; structured-record RAG; Document AI; Spring Boot; LangChain; LlamaIndex; BDD/TDD; POS, restaurant, or retail domain knowledge; and a master’s degree in a related technical discipline.

Benefits

  • On-site Monday through Friday with rotational non-standard and overnight on-call responsibilities.
  • Fuel Your Life well-being program, paid holidays, generous time away policies, and no-cost mental health support.
  • Employee recognition rewards and Employee Resource Groups.
  • Professional growth through training, development, and internal mobility opportunities.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one.
  • Retirement planning, discounted shares through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance, and paid parental, caregiver, and military leave.

Tech Stack

JavaKotlinKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPythonScalaSpring BootSQL

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About Fiserv

10,000+ employees

Fiserv builds payments and financial technology for banks, credit unions, merchants, and billers, including merchant acquiring, card issuing, core banking, and digital banking platforms. It earns revenue through transaction processing, software licensing, and managed services across POS (Clover), bill pay, ACH and card networks, and risk/compliance. The public company is headquartered in Milwaukee, trades on NASDAQ/BMV, acquired First Data in 2019, and serves clients in more than 100 countries.

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